my new technology falls into pieces and/or redundancy just as fast as everybody else's. when i was a boy the jingle was: "you can tell it's mattel, it's swell." daddy's version was: "you can tell it's mattel, it's broke." it was his theory that mattel used to infuse their plastic with a layer of oil that made it impossible to re-glue the stuff once you had busted it. it was his experience with the snapped off barrel of an ilya kuryakin (sp?) man from uncle machine gun pistol that first caused him to form this opinion (i think it was my brother carter's gun and not mine - we both got man from uncle weapons that christmas - '65, i'm guessing - but i got the napoleon solo model).
exploding plastic inevitable. that show was about '65, wasn't it?
if we be occasionally uncommunicative forgive us but things get glitchy.
we're reading mr. thorstein veblen's 'the theory of the leisure class' and we're reading it out of the penguin edition that has a '67 introduction by some fellow named robert lekachman. i just minutes ago read this introduction for the first time that i remember though i have owned this book six or seven or eight years. it's pretty useless. i suspect mr. lekachman of being the kind of person who grades others ands he displays the sorry comprehension and scholarship attendant.
topless girls read veblen continued:
"... in the sequence of cultural evolution the emergence of a leisure class coincides with the beginning of ownership...
... the earliest form of ownership... is an ownership of the woman by the man..."
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